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1 day ago · 威廉·莎士比亚 （英語： William Shakespeare ，1564年4月26日（受洗日）—1616年4月23日）， 華人社會 常尊稱為 莎翁 ， [1] 是 英国文学史 上最杰出的 戏剧家 ，也是西方文艺史上最杰出卓越的 文学家 之一 [2] 。. 他流传下来的作品包括38部戏剧、154首 十四行诗 、两 ...
4 days ago · A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedy play written by William Shakespeare in about 1595 or 1596. The play is set in Athens, and consists of several subplots that revolve around the marriage of Theseus and Hippolyta. One subplot involves a conflict among four Athenian lovers. Another follows a group of six amateur actors rehearsing the play ...
2 days ago · William Shakespeare - Poetry, Sonnets, Plays: Shakespeare seems to have wanted to be a poet as much as he sought to succeed in the theatre. His plays are wonderfully and poetically written, often in blank verse. And when he experienced a pause in his theatrical career about 1592–94, the plague having closed down much theatrical activity, he wrote poems. Venus and Adonis (1593) and The Rape ...
Jun 26, 2024 · King Lear, tragedy in five acts by William Shakespeare, written in 1605–06 and published in a quarto edition in 1608, evidently based on Shakespeare’s unrevised working papers. The text of the First Folio of 1623 often differs markedly from the quarto text and seemingly represents a theatrical revision done by the author with some cuts ...
Jun 19, 2024 · Globe Theatre. Globe Theatre, London. Globe Theatre, famous London theatre in which after 1599 the plays of William Shakespeare were performed. Early in 1599 Shakespeare, who had been acting with the Lord Chamberlain’s Men since 1594, paid into the coffers of the company a sum of money amounting to 12.5 percent of the cost of building the Globe.
Jun 13, 2024 · William Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon, England, and seems to have spent most of his life there and in London. He married Anne Hathaway when he was 18, and they had three children, Susanna (with whom Anne was pregnant at the wedding), Judith, and Hamnet.
Jun 18, 2024 · Hamlet, tragedy in five acts by William Shakespeare, written about 1599–1601 and published in a quarto edition in 1603 from an unauthorized text. Often considered the greatest drama of all time, the play tells the story of the troubled titular prince of Denmark.
